Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms
Cao Pi ends the Han and China splits into three
Cao Pi forced the last Han emperor to abdicate and founded the state of Wei; the rival states of Shu and Wu soon followed. The Three Kingdoms era, later romanticised in Luo Guanzhong's novel, is one of the best-known periods of Chinese history.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — 4 years later
Americas
- c. 200 Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan — 20 years earlier
Oceania
- c. 232 Hatepe eruption of Taupō — 12 years later
Alive at the time
- Cao Cao (aged 65)
- Zhuge Liang (aged 39)